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Re-printed by EnergyBulletin, this article offers perspective on how cutting funding for energy efficiency programs certainly costs governments more money, and costs everyone in other ways. Conservation is an essential means of addressing our precarious energy, and related environmental, situation. It offers flexibility in energy planning through relieving the burden of supply crunches that are facing jurisdictions everywhere already, oil and gas aside.

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Bush energy plan whacks conservation

Re-printed by EnergyBulletin, this article offers perspective on how cutting funding for energy efficiency programs certainly costs governments more money, and costs everyone in other ways. Conservation is an essential means of addressing our precarious energy, and related environmental, situation. It offers flexibility in energy planning through relieving the burden of supply crunches that are facing jurisdictions everywhere already, oil and gas aside. (See for example laurabird’s blog posting May 15.2006). It is unfortunate for everyone that such cuts are taking place both in Canada and the US.